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Survivors eating [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Several survivors stand or sit alongside a building while eating. They are not wearing any clothing. Numbered 105 on the reverse.
James Dodd Reese interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Reese served with the 13th Infantry Regiment of the 8th Infantry Division as a Regimental Chaplain and later as an Assistant Division Chaplain and witnessed the liberation of Wobbelin. Location of…
Joseph Porter Reilly interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Reilly served with the 102nd Calvary Group of the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau. Place of interview: New York, New York.
George Pierce Ricketts letter to his wife (1)
Content Note: Ricketts served with the Company C, 305th Medical Batallion, 80th Infantry Division as a PFC. He witnessed the liberation of a camp between Frankfurt and Limbach (which he thinks was Buchenwald).
George Pierce Ricketts letter to his wife (2)
Content Note: Ricketts served with the Company C, 305th Medical Batallion, 80th Infantry Division as a PFC. He witnessed the liberation of a camp between Frankfurt and Limbach (which he thinks was Buchenwald).
"Some camp between Frankfort and Limbach" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Liberators observe and examine corpses of executed prisoners near barrack 7. Numbered 38 on the reverse.
"Some of these were starved to death, some crippled, all shot in the back." [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lying on the ground near the barracks. All are clothed in prisoner uniforms. A liberator is running away from the camera in the upper left corner (toward a barrack.) …
Liberators examine corpses of prisoners [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Text on reverse: "Be sure and keep these pictures, honey. These I taken [sic] myself." A naked, emaciated corpse lies in the center foreground. Behind the corpse, liberators walk between and behind the other corpses scattered on the…
"Something happened here" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Liberators examine corpses of executed prisoners scattered on the ground near the barracks. The corpses are clothed in prisoner uniforms. Numbered 67 on the reverse.
M. O. Robinson interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Robinson served with the 1477th Engineer Maintenance Company and witnessed the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Location of interview: Stone Mountain, Georgia.